Expert Analysis

Consistency Is Key In Pipeline Incident Investigations

A pipeline release that causes worker injury does not trigger one investigation, but five or more, running on different timetab...(read more)

NLRB Ruling Allows Leeway On Disciplining Misconduct

The National Labor Relations Board's recent decision in Lion Elastomers gives employers more room to discipline employees for t...(read more)

Defending Hospital Antisteering Clauses From DOJ Scrutiny

The Trump administration has recently made clear that pursuing antitrust challenges to antisteering provisions in hospital-insu...(read more)

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NLRB Names New Regional Director Of Boston Office

A longtime National Labor Relations Board employee has been appointed regional director of the agency's regional office in Boston, the board announced.

SkyWest Union Latest To Oppose Spirit's Ch. 11 Data Sale

A union representing flight crew members for SkyWest Airlines has asked a New York bankruptcy court for permission to intervene in the Chapter 11 case of budget airline owner Spirit Aviation Holdings so that it can submit ...(read more)

House Democrat Urges Labor Agencies To Preserve Records

The top Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee urged the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board and other federal agencies on Wednesday to preserve government records ahead of the nex...(read more)

6th Circ. Backs UAW, Ford Win In Discrimination Suit

The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive a former Ford employee's lawsuit claiming that the United Auto Workers failed to properly represent him after he was wrongfully terminated, ruling that the claims he lodged ...(read more)

Mass. Justices Doubt Nantucket's Rationale For PFML Denial

Massachusetts' highest court appeared to push back Wednesday on assertions by Nantucket that it cannot implement the state's Paid Family and Medical Leave Act for employees of the island enclave, despite a town meeting vot...(read more)

Ex-Pardon Atty's Firing Is Not Reviewable, DOJ Tells Court

The Justice Department has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from a former U.S. pardon attorney who alleges she was fired for not recommending restoration of actor Mel Gibson's gun rights.

5th Circ. Backs NLRB Bargaining Order For Hyatt Operator

The Fifth Circuit has upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering a Texas Hyatt hotel operator to bargain with a UNITE HERE local, ruling that the company failed to establish that the union interfered with th...(read more)

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2nd Circ. Says Ex-EMT's Retaliation Suit Lacks Evidence

The Second Circuit declined Wednesday to revive a former EMT's suit claiming she was transferred to a billing department role for complaining that her male colleagues harassed her, ruling she failed to overcome the ambulan...(read more)

IKEA 'Boys' Club' Derailed Manager's Career, Bias Suit Alleges

An ambitious IKEA middle manager lost her shot at a promotion and eventually lost her job entirely because of the toxic "boys' club" culture of the company's leadership team, she alleged in a new discrimination suit in Was...(read more)

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Medical Transport Co. To Pay $2.2M In EEOC Beard Ban Suit

Emergency services provider Global Medical Response will pay $2.2 million and create a new category of nonemergency jobs to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the company's strict no-beard...(read more)

5th Circ. Backs Texas City In ADA Retaliation Suit

The Fifth Circuit refused to reopen a former Texas municipal employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired over requested accommodations for her thyroid disease and mental health issue, finding her "vague and ambiguous" presui...(read more)

Ogletree Brings On 3 Attys In Calif. Specializing In Litigation

Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has expanded two of its California offices with the recent additions of three attorneys who moved their practices to Los Angeles and San Diego.

Turner Sports, Ex-HR Director Reach Deal In Severance Suit

A one-time Warner Bros. subsidiary has struck a deal to end a race bias suit from a former human resources director who claimed she was denied severance benefits after she quit following Discovery Inc. and WarnerMedia's 20...(read more)

4th Circ. Keeps CIA Officers' Appeal Rights In DEI Firing Suit

All but one of the Fourth Circuit's judges voted to deny the federal government's request for an en banc rehearing of a panel's split decision that allowed CIA officers to appeal terminations that were allegedly due to the...(read more)

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Wash. Justices Won't Hear Concrete Co.'s $649K Wage Appeal

Washington's highest court declined to review a concrete company's challenge to a state agency's finding that it underpaid workers who used radar and X-ray imaging to scan concrete on a Seattle-area light rail bridge proje...(read more)

Ogletree Adds Ex-Amazon Employment Atty To Seattle Office

A leading in-house employment attorney for Amazon has departed to join Ogletree Deakins' Seattle office, bringing expertise helping Fortune 50 companies navigate workforce challenges to the firm.

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Ford, EV Battery Co. Must Face Workers' Unpaid Wage Suit

Ford Motor Co. and its electric vehicle battery joint venture must face a proposed class and collective action alleging unpaid wages after a Michigan federal judge ruled Wednesday that workers sufficiently alleged the auto...(read more)

7th Circ. Probes Milwaukee Tool's Forced-Labor Liability

Seventh Circuit judges grappled Wednesday with whether a federal anti-trafficking law allows a former Chinese prisoner to sue Milwaukee Tool over allegations it sold gloves made with forced prison labor in China, questioni...(read more)

Shake Shack Wants Wage Suit In Arbitration

Shake Shack urged a New York federal judge to send a former employee's proposed wage class and collective action to arbitration, arguing that she electronically signed a binding agreement requiring her to pursue claims ove...(read more)

Construction Worker Says Firm Split Pay To Dodge OT

A construction worker has accused an environmental cleanup and roofing company in Maine federal court of paying crews their regular $50 hourly rate for overtime hours and issuing separate checks for those hours without an ...(read more)

Calif. AG Rob Bonta Wins 2nd Term Over Michael Gates

California voters on Tuesday handed state Attorney General Rob Bonta a decisive reelection win over an Orange County city administrator who briefly served as a U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general d...(read more)